The Story of Aḥiqar, also known as the Words of Aḥiqar, is a story first attested in Imperial Aramaic from the fifth century BCE on papyri from Elephantine...

theme differently expressed occurs in the Aramaic version of the story of Ahiqar, dating from about 500 BCE. 'The bramble sent to the pomegranate tree saying...

sage Ahiqar, who reputedly lived during the early 7th century BCE, coined the first known version of this phrase. One copy of the Teachings of Ahiqar, dating...

Papyrus narrating the story of the wise chancellor Ahiqar. Aramaic script. 5th century BCE. From Elephantine, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin...

difficult to date) Story of Melchizedek (Jewish, 1st–3rd centuries AD) Ahiqar (Jewish dating from late 7th or 6th cent. BC and cited in Apocryphal Tobit)...

Seminar p. 376 Oshima, Takayoshi (2017). "How Mesopotamian was Ahiqar the Wise? A Search for Ahiqar in Cuneiform Texts". In Berlejung, Angelika; Maeir, Aren...

standardised. Only the formularies of the private documents and the Proverbs of Ahiqar have maintained an older tradition of sentence structure and style. Imperial...

other texts six centuries apart. The Aramaic collection of wise sayings by Ahiqar, dating from 500 BCE, mentions that "An ass which leaves its load and does...

and Cambyses are purely legendary, showing similarities to the sayings of Ahiqar. A similar conclusion is drawn in a recent article that makes a case for...

Lexicon.) but neither is found in the Peshitta, the Syriac Bible. Late Syriac Ahiqar texts include qanpa as "ropes of hemp" (tunbei de-qanpa). The Hebrew word...

Slavonic adaptations. Ahiqar has been betrayed by his nephew Nadan, who asks for a second chance once his behaviour has been exposed. Ahiqar replies with a series...

rulers – in a section that appears to borrow heavily from the romance of Ahiqar. The story ends with Aesop's journey to Delphi, where he angers the citizens...

Esarhaddon, the king, Aba-Enlil-dari was scholar, whom the Arameans call Ahiqar. † Note the root for this word is the same (Iu4-4+60) as that for the following...

particular (see: Elephantine papyri). Of them, the best known is the Wisdom of Ahiqar, a book of instructive aphorisms quite similar in style to the biblical...

quoted in other extant works. The work may have influenced the Wisdom of Ahiqar. Biblical scholar John Nolland sees a passage in the Counsels of Wisdom...

composer Isabelle Aboulker. A fragmentary proverbial saying attributed to Ahiqar occurs in an Aramaic document dating from the 6th century BCE: A man one...

of the earliest allusions to a fable of this kind occurs in the story of Ahiqar, a royal counsellor to late Assyrian kings who is betrayed by his adopted...

that a person's basic nature cannot be changed, is one of the proverbs of Ahiqar, Aesop's Near Eastern counterpart. 'If water would stand still in heaven...

it occurs in the Syriac version of the story of Ahiqar, which goes back to the time of Aesop. Ahiqar has been betrayed by his adoptive son Nadan and among...

from Elephantine in particular. Of them, the best known is the Wisdom of Ahiqar, a book of instructive aphorisms quite similar in style to the biblical...

version of the fable that appeared in various recensions of the story of Ahiqar from the first century CE. In the Arabic version, a gazelle nibbles a madder...

2007. "Il retroterra assiro di Ahiqar", pp. 91–112 in Ricccardo Contini and Cristiano Grottanelli, (eds.), Il saggio Ahiqar. Brescia: Paideia, 2005. "National...

Madrid; Leiden: Editorial Complutense; Brill. ——— (1995). "The Wisdom of Ahiqar". In Day, John; Gordon, Robert P.; Williamson, H. G. M. (eds.). Wisdom in...

proverbial saying in the 6th century BCE Aramaic version of the story of Ahiqar in which an onager (wild ass) stoutly rejects the suggestion that it should...

between a bramble and a pomegranate is inserted in the Aramaic story of Ahiqar that was only discovered at the start of the last century. There the bramble...